"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
08/05/2019 at 16:15 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
08/05/2019 at 16:15 • Filed to: None | 3
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Toby and I had a dairy day. One meeting canceled, so we snuck out to Hatfield Park, a little gem near Hilmar. This is the Merced River. The best thing about representing farmers is that they don’t mind if you bring your dog.
I have a lot of memories here. I built my practice with these farms, driving these roads in my RX-8. I chased the UFCW off this dairy, and they did most of the work for me by being such combative assholes that the workers turned away. It taught me how to let them beat themselves, which the history of the labor movement shows them prone to do.
Our Valley is a beautiful place if you get off the highway and explore. In Hilmar, the animal hospital had a sign advertising “cat castration” instead of “spay and neuter.” I laughed
That, my friends, is a dairy and livestock town
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 16:22 |
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*radio static* double oh toby has breached the perimeter... repeat double oh whos a good boy then
Nick Has an Exocet
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 16:25 |
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Man, the Merced river is great.
His Stigness
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 16:25 |
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Toby is just the best.
TheRevanchist
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 16:38 |
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Toby is good doggo.
Ash78, voting early and often
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 16:38 |
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Drinking a little of that Yosemite Water. You could probably bottle it, ship it to Fiji, and sell it to tourists there.
RallyWrench
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 17:14 |
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When I can (read: when I’m driving by myself ), I like to find alternate paths across the valley. The 41 corridor gets old, and doesn’t tell the whole story. I t’s cool to see all the little towns dotting the valley once you get off the beaten path. The old train depot in Le Grand is really neat, for example. Just because it’s flat doesn’t mean it’s boring, there is indeed beauty there.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ImmoralMinority
08/05/2019 at 17:34 |
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“The best thing about representing farmers is that they don’t mind if you bring your dog.”
Story time! One of my best friends in school had a German Shepherd named Boot. We all lived in the country and my buddy let Boot wander as most country folks do. One day he came home and Boot didn’t greet him at the truck. It took a while, but he eventually found Boot hiding under the porch. Boot refused to come out on his own, so my friend crawled under the porch to retrieve his dog. Boot had been shot.
It was about three miles to the nearest country vet, so into the truck they went!
When they arrived at the vet, he saw Boot immediately. The vet poked around for a minute and said, “it looks like a 30.06.” My friend expressed his amazement and asked how the vet knew. “I shot him,” was the reply.
Boot had visited the vet’s property earlier that day. When he arrived, he decided that the vet’s cows were in the wrong place, so he proceeded to herd them across the field. The vet heard the commotion and after appraising the situation, decided that the cows were, in fact, in the right place. He decided to rectify the situation by removing the shepherd. He shot Boot in the gut, f rom over 200 yards, w hile on the run.
The vet patched up Boot for free and told my buddy to make sure Boot stayed home. He said the next time Boot decided to herd his cows, he would aim for the head.
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> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/05/2019 at 18:03 |
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This is why most Australian farmers don’t welcome other people’s dogs onto their properties. And if they do bring them then they stay on the ute.
We also tend to use 1080 for fox control (much like you guys do for coyote control) and farm dogs are very much not immune.
DipodomysDeserti
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/05/2019 at 19:28 |
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Mmmmmmm, agricultural runoff.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> DipodomysDeserti
08/06/2019 at 08:14 |
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You could actually name the water
Roundup
— it could be a reference to cattle AND pesticides!
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
08/06/2019 at 10:50 |
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What is 1080?
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> Snuze: Needs another Swede
08/06/2019 at 18:04 |
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It’s a poison compound. Its proper name is sodium monofluroacetate.
All c anids are spectacularly susceptible to it (0.06 grams per kg is considered a lethal dose) . Even via secondary poisoning. Cats also are highly susceptible. Many herbivores and rodents less again but still effective. Humans would have to eat a fair bit and birds would have to eat an unlikely amount to be killed by it.
Many Australian native animals are resistant to it as it is a naturally occurring compound in the leaves of some plants.
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
08/07/2019 at 09:58 |
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Hmm, didn’t know anything about that. Thanks for all the info.
I used to work with an Aussie and I remember him talking about his neighbor, the “Cat Killer” who’s some guy who’s become a bit infamous, I guess. It sounds like there’s a pretty serious cat problem down there, though. I suppos e 1080 is a good way to take care of all kinds of dogs, cats, and foxes.
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SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
08/07/2019 at 18:15 |
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Cats are notoriously hard to bait or trap. Recent efforts to clear them from small parts (a few thousand acres a piece ) of the landscape where small native mammals are to be re introduced have taken months and are down to the last couple of animals that are no longer approaching bait stations. They have to be spotlight hunted at night and shot...so far with little success.